Ocean circulation

This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but. has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved. as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other. readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colling, Angela
Corporate Author: Open University Oceanography Course Team
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Butterworth Heinemann, in association with the Open University 2001, 2001
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but. has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved. as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other. readers. Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of. numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the. ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). In. particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of. the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly
Physical Description:online resource (286 p.) col. ill
ISBN:0080537944
0750652780
9780080537948
9780750652780